Madly Improving Basic Skills!

One gold is equivalent to ten Skyfall Stones, and 1 gold is 1 gram of real-world gold.

He still had a full 1000 grams of gold on hand.

When he fled from home before, he had brought two kilograms of gold, all of which had been topped up. This 1000 grams was from the two gold bars Xu Qi gave him when he was trying to win him over.

The reason he hadn't topped it all up was because he wanted to see if there would be any new top-up events.

But now it seemed this game was incomplete and wouldn't be updated.

The previous top-up reward events were all fixed.

So he decided to top up the remaining 1000 grams, converting it into skill caps.

"Top up 1000 gold."

"Ding! Congratulations, player, you have successfully topped up 1000 gold and received [number] Skyfall Stones. You now have 16,856 Skyfall Stones."

Once he farmed more experience and became nearly invincible in the real world, he could continue to top up massively and walk the path of an invincible pay-to-win player!

Anyone who plays games often knows that pay-to-win players and regular players are playing two different games.

The latter are the game content for the former.

Afterward, Gao Linzhi lay in his wooden cabin in the real world and excitedly began allocating points to his Basic Skills.

"Disguise Art from Level 0 to Level 100."

"Basic Medical Skills from Level 0 to Level 100."

"Basic Stealth from Level 0 to Level 100."

"Basic Spear Technique from Level 40 to Level 100."

"Basic Archery from Level 10 to Level 100."

"Basic Fists and Feet from Level 10 to Level 100."

This consumed a full 53,000 experience points, leaving 24,500 experience points.

All the Basic Skills he had learned were now raised to Level 100.

To list them simply: "Disguise Art Level 100, Heavenly Sight, Earthly Hearing, Person-Judging Art (incomplete), Basic Defense Level 100, Basic Medical Skills Level 100, Basic Lightness Skill Level 100, Basic Perception Level 100, Basic Parrying Level 100, Basic Stealth Level 100, Basic Movement Technique Level 100, Basic Spear Technique Level 100, Basic Dodge Level 100, Basic Fists and Feet Level 100, Basic Archery Level 100."

Level 1, 13 Basic Skills. Opening a new skill cap slot requires 1700 Skyfall Stones.

Gao Linzhi realized this was an arithmetic progression, with each one requiring 200 more Skyfall Stones than the previous.

This was not bad; if it were exponential growth, it would be impossible, and he could only rely on leveling up to obtain skill caps.

As for other players, at Level 1, they only had 6 Basic Skills.

Even if they wanted to cap their levels, there was a ceiling.

Once they maxed out their 6 Basic Skills, it would only add 60 Constitution.

After maxing out 6 skills and then capping their level, it would be meaningless.

But he had now added 110 Constitution, plus the base 5, making it 115, and his HP would be 1150.

Disguise Art did not increase Constitution.

Gao Linzhi's current status panel was simple:

[Constitution: 5 (+110)]

[Spirit: 7.]

[HP: 50 (Constitution X10)]

[MP: 70 (Spirit X10)]

[Skills: 13 (Cap 13).]

He decided to test his abilities.

He now had 115 Constitution, equivalent to the combined strength of 22 ordinary people, but it was not that simple in reality.

Because this meant he had far surpassed the limits of carbon-based life!

He exerted force with his feet and jumped, leaping over a hundred meters high to reach the cliff face.

He reached out and grabbed, his five fingers sinking directly into the rock wall.

The solid limestone was like soft tofu.

Then he released the rock wall and fell freely.

"Clang!"

Landing from a height of a hundred meters, his feet directly broke through the rock beneath him. He sank into the stone as if it were sand.

With a slight effort, he leaped out of the rock.

His skin was so tough that even bullets couldn't penetrate it.

He finally had the confidence to somewhat roam freely in the real world!

Moreover, he had resurrection and Disguise Art.

However, he naturally wouldn't be satisfied with that.

He was still far from his limit.

Moreover, his Constitution was sufficient, but his Spirit remained a weakness. How should he allocate his points?

He had read countless novels and naturally knew that Spirit was related to dealing with Anomalies and could be used to resist various forms of mental pollution.

He looked at Basic Skills. Logically, Basic Medical Skills should be related to Spirit, yet it increased Constitution instead.

This was probably because this type of medical skill was purely surgical, involving bandaging, stopping bleeding, and so on, not magical healing.

He had a feeling that it should be the magically inclined Basic Skills.

For example, the most typical ones like Fireball Spell, Water Arrow Spell, and Wind Blade.

These would increase Spirit and, consequently, MP.

With this thought, he began to increase his skill slots.

He silently calculated that the existing Skyfall Stones would allow him to unlock seven more skill slots, leaving him with 756 Skyfall Stones.

This was enough. This was the advantage of staying at Level 1: the death penalty was small, and the consumption of Skyfall Stones was low.

"Unlock seven more new skill slots," he silently chanted.

"Unlocking the 14th requires 1700 Skyfall Stones, the 15th 1900, the 16th 2100..."

"You have consumed 17,600 Skyfall Stones, with 756 remaining. Your skill slot limit has been expanded to 20."

Excellent. He then entered the game and found the Fourth Elder again.

"Fourth Elder, do we have any magic-type Basic Skills in our village? Do they teach them at the Martial Arts School?" he asked directly.

"Magic-type? Only the Great Elder knows them. They aren't available elsewhere. Magic is not like those ordinary skills; it's extremely, extremely precious," the Fourth Elder said, shaking his head.

So they did exist, but they were very precious.

"Elder, could you recommend me to the Great Elder to learn?" Gao Linzhi asked.

"Only those who have made significant contributions to the village can be taught this. You must understand, this is equivalent to the top core technology in your world; it cannot be easily passed on," the Fourth Elder explained.

Clearly, he didn't want Can Xue to harbor any resentment.

"I understand. What kind of contribution would be enough?" Gao Linzhi continued to ask.

"Well, the village's biggest and most fundamental threat is Anomalies. If you can find ways to deal with three types of Anomalies, you can learn a magic-type Basic Skill," the Fourth Elder stated directly.

"Three types of Anomalies?" Gao Linzhi mused.

"Forget it. You shouldn't think about this. Dealing with Anomalies should be left to those Corporate Players. As for you, just earn more Experience and be able to counter those Corporate Players; that's enough," the Fourth Elder said frankly. "If you can't defeat Anomalies, can't you defeat your own kind?"

Gao Linzhi chuckled.

This was the art of checks and balances.

Indeed, the village wasn't foolish.

They wouldn't allow the Corporate Players to occupy the village; they were also dividing the players.

Those who could deal with Corporate Players could only be Rogue Players.

Using barbarians to control barbarians, using players to deal with players.

From this perspective, East Wolf Village was very clever. In contrast, villages where Corporate Players held a monopoly were actually in constant danger of perishing.

However, Gao Linzhi had no intention of giving up on magic-type Basic Skills.

Spirit had to be increased.

What to do when faced with a difficult problem?

As a certain expert once said: When you feel there's a problem with the game and you can't clear it, first check if you've spent enough money.